Great Book Fr Impressionism Ke

by Diane Kelder

Book Overview

Updated in a useful format, the revised edition of the most popular volume on French Impressionism celebrates the richness and exuberance of the Impressionists' world. Kelder's thoughtful, cogent text is interwoven with anecdotes and excerpts from contemporary essays and letters which examine in detail the lives and works of all the major Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, including Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and Cezanne. 400 illustrations,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517445468
• ISBN13: 9780517445464
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 10.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Gift

I bought this book as a retirement gift for a friend. I am not an art expert by any means, but before I bought this book, I looked through numerous other art books and thought that the colors were muddy and unattactive in many of them and there were relativley few reproductions that I would want to look at. This book has a large selection of excellent color prints of wellknown impressionists' works. Much better quality then others I have looked at. A good buy for the money.

This Book Is Beloved By Two Generations in My Family

I first saw this book at my grandmother's. She would put it on a console table which greeted people entering the living room from the foyer. She always had the book open to a different painting--you never knew which one it would be. I became so interested, and learned so much from her by asking about the paintings, that eventually, as an adult, I knew I had to have one too. So I bought one for myself and have used it to teach my 6yr. old about Impressionism. She doesn't really understand, but she likes the little girls (Renoir, Cassat) :) -Beryl